The Seashore

Episode aired Oct 20, 1977
TV-G
49m

IMDb RATING

6.9/10

159

YOUR RATING

David W. Harper and Jon Walmsley in The Waltons (1972)

Drama Family Romance

The Waltons visit the seashore and stay at the Baldwin's beach home. An English girl is staying there. Meanwhile Ben stays home, hoping to enjoy time alone. He is anything but alone.The Waltons visit the seashore and stay at the Baldwin's beach home. An English girl is staying there. Meanwhile Ben stays home, hoping to enjoy time alone. He is anything but alone.The Waltons visit the seashore and stay at the Baldwin's beach home. An English girl is staying there. Meanwhile Ben stays home, hoping to enjoy time alone. He is anything but alone.

Director
- Lawrence Dobkin
Writers
- Earl Hamner Jr.
- Marion Hargrove
Stars

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IMDb RATING

6.9/10

159

YOUR RATING

Director
- Lawrence Dobkin
Writers
- Earl Hamner Jr.
- Marion Hargrove
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

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jwlacey-28278

Waltons on a beach trip?

Since when does Virginia Beach have ciffs like that? These people never leave home. I missed this when it originally aired. This episode is a classic case of me too-ism. Happy Days visited the California coast (with Fonzie jumping the shark). The Brady Bunch visited Hawaii and King's Island. I'm convinced this show didn't know what to do with the story line since Richard "John Boy" Thomas and Will Geer left.

This episode follows suite. Jason falls for a hotty just like Richie Cunningham did in the California episode.

This episode was just a pathetic attempt at taking modern themes and applying them to shows with historical settings. That's how you know these TV shows are about at the end of their rope. Nothing about this episode looks like the 1940's (see Summer of 42 for that).

2janet-conant

Almost Unwatchable

Whenever this episode is on I remember years back when the series had some really good writing and acting. This is possibly the most boring Waltons episode (although there are many) after Thomas left the show but the episodes in seasons 7 and 8 had some equally unwatchable moments.

I vaguely remember the English girl living in that beach house and her droning on with why she's there and her father. The scenes between her and Jason are so monotonous that I couldn't watch because who cares. This revealed that it was time to wrap things up.

Give me the Denbys, dust bowl cousins, Lyle Thomasin, the visiting genius and the Firestorm any day.

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Trivia
Actress Vickery Turner was 37 years old when she played the role of 20 year old Lisa Cooper. Turner is 18 years older than Jon Walmsley, who was 19 years old when he played Lisa Cooper's love interest Jason Walton.

Goofs
When the family first arrive at the beach, the pier is near the house. It is just as close to the bus stop when Lisa goes home at the end of the story.

Quotes
Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] In the late spring of 1940 our world on Waltons Mountain was very quiet and uneasy. For the first time ever people stopped work in the daytime to turn on the radio. The war in Europe had seemed to be hibernating until, suddenly, on the 10th of May the Germans invaded Belgium and the Netherlands and Luxembourg. By the 10th of June, they had enslaved all three and driven the British and French forces into the sea, and were marching into Paris. To all purposes, the free world in Europe now consisted only of the British Isles. And just as suddenly, at least it seemed so here at home, there were no more pacifists, no isolationists. The little ocean between us and the Nazi terror was not very wide any more. People were beginning to feel that the time had come to help whatever allies we had and to be ready when the attack turned on ourselves.